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Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats.

Networking in Nashville in the name of advancing women’s audio careers

Women’s Audio Mission finds that, "too often, recording studios and boardrooms can be uncomfortable spaces for women, especially young women that are just getting started, and that’s something that absolutely must change."

Peak heat expected in Nashville, continuing streak of 90-degree days

The relentless heat is not over — and is expected to be at its most dangerous this week.

NashVillager Podcast: Vultee

Was Rosie the Riveter modeled on a Nashville aircraft builder? Plus, the local news for July 28, 2025.

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Tia Sillers: GRAMMY-winning songwriter

Public Media at Risk: The Impact and Uncertainty of Federal Funding Loss

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Opryland’s Lasting Legacy

The Country In Our Hearts

A new podcast from WPLN News

The story of how Nashville became home to the largest Kurdish diaspora in America is an epic one. A tale of bloody genocide, of freedom fighters, of stunning perseverance.

But the story of the Kurdish people, no matter where they are, is a story about a country that only exists in the hearts of its people. And the lengths they’ll go to make it real.

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Nashville will see a rise in ICE agents under Trump’s budget plan

Alvarado echoes Trump in launching a congressional bid

‘Good Trouble’ rally in deep-red Sumner County protests Trump, honors late John Lewis

Abrego Garcia’s path to release is uncertain. Here’s the latest from a Nashville courthouse.

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Peak heat expected in Nashville, continuing streak of 90-degree days

NashVillager Podcast: Downstream problems

Will TVA be privatized? Trump’s efforts to control the utility, fire CEO spark speculation

The owner of the Tennessee factory where workers drowned after Hurricane Helene won’t face charges

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What to know about Tennessee’s scheduled execution of Byron Black

TDOC pushback on execution court order amounts to ‘passive aggression,’ judge says

Court order: Tennessee prisoner’s heart implant must be deprogrammed before his execution

VUMC Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt part of research trying new ways of preserving hearts for transplants

Criminal Justice

What to know about Tennessee’s scheduled execution of Byron Black

TDOC pushback on execution court order amounts to ‘passive aggression,’ judge says

Court order: Tennessee prisoner’s heart implant must be deprogrammed before his execution

A heart implant could make Tennessee’s next execution painful and prolonged. Prison officials argue they don’t have to disable the device.

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